Through its acquisition of Worklight, IBM has a tool that lets developers write once and deploy across multiple mobile platforms.
From a technical perspective, I can say that developing for the platform is not a simple matter of write once, run everywhere.
Web apps promised to deliver the digital nirvana of "write once, run anywhere, " meaning you don't need a different website for a PC and a Mac.
What's more, the "write once, deploy everywhere" nature of the platform will massively reduce the cost of creating, versioning and maintaining applications, enabling a truly open, standards-based Web that advances opportunity and innovation for all.
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Matrix is certainly not the first company to try to establish a new portable write-once format.
Java is a widely-used programming language designed to let developers write programs once that can then be run, with minimal changes, on any computer.
Sun Microsystems' write-once-run-anywhere programming language is expected to grow from an installed base of 3.8 million digital cable boxes in 1998 to 12 million boxes by year 2001, according to International Data Corp. (IDC), a Framingham, Mass.
The BDXL specification, which is targeted primarily at commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging enterprises with significant archiving needs, will provide customers with write-once options on 100GB and 128GB capacity discs and rewritable capability on 100GB discs.
Downing Street indicated the government was looking at a number of options, including forcing companies to write to customers once a year and place them on the cheapest tariff.
One major benefit of having a single standard among wireless providers would be to enable content developers to write their content once and have it understood by all devices, Parrish said.
So all this does is allow a company to simply write it off once by not counting it as income, rather than both not counting it as income and getting able -- being able to write it off.
OpenSocial's greatest strength could be its greatest weakness: Google hopes applications developers will work with OpenSocial technology because they need only write an app once for it to run on many popular sites, including Orkut, MySpace, Friendster and Bebo.
The bean counters like the fact that you can write an application once and then, with little expense and effort, modify it to run on a whole universe of Microsoft systems from the corporate network level (Windows NT) down to a single set-top box (Windows CE).
OpenSocial's greatest strength could be its greatest weakness: Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) hopes applications developers will work with OpenSocial technology because they need only write an app once for it to run on many popular sites, including Orkut, MySpace, Friendster and Bebo.
And banks would be forced to write down loans at once should the market judge their credit quality to be impaired.
Once you write something as code, others who can read code can evaluate it and see if you indeed have a unique idea that can generate value.
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Spencer once had to write a note to his principal years ago when a job conflicted with the school day.
Kelman was an English major who once struggled to write a novel.
We're honestly extremely curious and excited to see what app developers can do once they can write Android apps for a reasonably quick processor and TV screen sizes, but that's all just potential right now -- at launch, Google TV devices ship with handful of bundled apps like Netflix, NBA GameTime, and (thrillingly) CNBC Real Time, but that's it.
As it does, China will once again re-write the rules for competing in the global economy.
"Once you start to write about numbers, it's sedative time, " says Syracuse University television and film professor Richard Dubin .
"They simply don't write funny stuff anymore, " he once said.
The American writer once won a bet that he could write a story in just six words, and we asked our readers to do the same.
Every once and a while it is important to write about your hidden passions and dreams.
Best of all, once the outline is finished, you can write the book very quickly and in any order.
But, for those who once assumed the young would never learn to write, it is a modest reason for hope.
The Severn Trent spokeswoman said the firm was carrying out further tests and once the water quality has improved it would write to customers.
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Ernest Hemingway once said, Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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